ELIXIR Conference Open Data in Action: Life Science Data Infrastructure for Innovation, 4 February, Brussels, Belgium
About 100 participants - researchers, policy makers, research infrastructure operators, industry representatives - gathered last week in Brussels for the ELIXIR Conference 'Open Data in Action' to discuss the impact of life science Open Data on innovation.
The Conference opened with a speech by Robert-Jan Smits, Director-General of the Research and Innovation DG of the European Commission. Highlighting the role of Open Data and Open Access policies in the European Commission's Horizon 2020 funding programme, Mr Smits informed about the goal to make data management plans a requirement for all Horizon 2020 grants.
Niklas Blomberg, ELIXIR Director, and Pierre Meulien, Executive Director of the Innovative Medicine Initiative, both presented their organisations, giving concrete examples how open data in the life sciences drives innovation and the knowedge economy. Barend Mons, the Chair of the High level expert Group on Open Science Could talked about some of the challenges in enabling and supporting open science principles in European research.
The participants also saw presentations of the SIB-Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics by Ron Appel, the EBI Literature services by Jo McEntyre, and the Human Protein Atlas by Tove Alm. The panel discussion - moderated by Sabina Leonelli - focussed on the value of Open Data from the perspectives of users, industry, operators and funders.
Presentations
| Session I: Open Data for Innvation, Chair: Anna Wetterbom | |
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Rober-Jan Smits, Director-General, Research and Innovation DG, Euroepan Commission Open Innovation, Open Science and Open to the World: Horizon 2020 in an ERA of Innovation | |
| Niklas Blomberg, ELIXIR Director ELIXIR Europe: The Distributed Life Science Infrasctucture for Biological Data | View slides |
| Pierre Meulien, Executive Director, Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) The importance of Big Data for Better Outcomes in IMI | View slides |
| Barend Mons, Chair of the High Level Expert Group on European Open Science Cloud Reflections form the High Level Expert Group on European Science Cloud | View slides |
| Session II: Bioinformatics Resources in Action, Chair: Torsten Schwede | |
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Ron Appel, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in supporting life science discoveries | View slides |
| Jo McEntyre, EMBL_EBI, Literature Services Linking Open Access literature with data: new opportunities for scientific discovery | View slides |
| Tove Alm, SciLifeLab, Sweden The Huma Protein Atlas: a flagship resource for understanding the whole human proteome | View slides |